Word: alignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their Senior year. In other words, the system which has been so deplored and so defended at Cambridge and at New Haven will now receive its first and perhaps its most vital test, that of undergraduate support or condemnation. Each junior at Cambridge must decide whether he desires to align himself with the new Harvard or prefers to complete his course under the traditional social system...
...Governor Johnson's speeches were widely quoted by the Republican press and were used in every way to further Mr. Hughes' election. . . . However, the progressive element in the State of California, which was then in the majority, rightly or wrongly became convinced that Mr. Hughes intended to align himself with the reactionary element of the party and to ignore progressive men and principles in his administration, if he were elected. . . . Consequently, in their anger, they voted for President Wilson, even against the urgings of Governor Johnson...
...impression of exceptional force, of honesty, intelligence and absence of flubdub and pretense. . . . ". . . Potentialities of responsive and responsible leadership." The potent Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, 26 strong, last week published an editorial saying: "An independent newspaper is not a party organ. In supporting Hoover, we will not align ourselves as the enemy or traducer of the good and able man who is his opponent. "We want to see Hoover in the White House. But, excepting Hoover, we would rather see Alfred E. Smith than any man since Woodrow Wilson...
...essential that this support be brought-back to the Republican party, and not be permitted to extend into other states." The kind of extension Mr. Howard possibly had in mind was the Democrats' shrewd move last autumn in appointing Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro pugilist, to align votes in Chicago's black belt the way Tammany has succeeded in aligning dark Harlem in New York. Mr. Howard had a program, he said. His program was to nominate for Vice President that tall 39-year-oldster Repre sentative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Mr. Fish who footballed at Harvard...
...would President Coolidge ask Mr. Morrow to behave in the Land of Maņana? Here was the focus of attention for people who know Mr. Morrow as well as the President does. Like the President, they could align Mr. Morrow's undoubted, ability and his Morgan connection as natural complements. They could see the U. S. well served by an understanding of Mexican conditions that has been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William...